You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but also of mind.

A journey into a wondrous land of imagination.

That's the signpost up ahead -- your next stop, the Forum Building.

That's right, this Halloween weekend No Refund Theatre (NRT) is performing select episodes of the classic television series The Twilight Zone.

The show's director Matt Keeler (junior-communication sciences and disorders) said he has been a fan of the 1960s television series since a young age.

"The first episode I remember watching is 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,' the one where William Shatner sees [a gremlin] on the wing," Keeler said. "I just remember that at the time it scared the crap outta me."

Keeler said the show's personal significance to him has changed somewhat since then.

"When I was first watching The Twilight Zone, it was sheerly for entertainment value: the spooks, the creeps, the crawls," he said, adding that upon multiple viewings other levels became clear to him. "The episodes are loaded with social commentary. They are so rich with allusions to classic literature, historical events, I'm not even at the level where I can fully break it down yet."

This weekend's NRT production will include performances of three different Twilight Zone episodes -- "One for the Angels," "The Masks" and "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" -- all about 23 minutes long.

Keeler said the second performance, "One for the Angels," about a man's run-in with the incarnation of death, is his personal favorite episode.

"The episodes about death illustrate our internal conflict with the fear of death," he said, adding that usually, the author helps the audience to understand and come to grips with death's reality.

Jeff Piotrowsky (sophomore-business) who plays Death, said this production marked his first real encounter with the series.

"I'd seen parodies of a few episodes, but short of that and the Disney ride, I didn't know much.

"I thought it was just going to be some campy, cheap thrills," he said. "What I realized, though, is that The Twilight Zone is ground zero for the eerie, creepy feeling that is absent from a lot of horror today. It's just a different type of scariness."

2004 Penn State graduate and NRT veteran Jason Poorman is part of the cast of the evening's second episode, "Masks," about a dying man and the family members due to inherit his wealth, set against the backdrop of Mardi Gras. Careful not to give away the twist to "Masks," Poorman did say the episode -- like many other episodes of The Twilight Zone -- is largely about karma.

The final episode of the evening is "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" a semi-comical needle-in-a-haystack whodunit where the haystack is a diner and the needle is a Martian, disguised as a human.

"Martian" will feature everyone from the casts of the two previous vignettes in its ensemble.

Poorman said he felt the show's appeal was in its flights of fancy.

"We're so used to reality issues where the focus is on mundane things," he said. "This show is divorced from reality. It really pushed the envelope for its time."

He added that this weekend is the perfect venue for the series, because Halloween is "the anti-reality holiday."

Keeler said he thinks the performance will be accessible to everyone, regardless of their history with the show.

"Those who are fans will enjoy recognizing the episodes and seeing them on stage," Keeler said. "And each of the stories are so complete by themselves, I think people who have never seen the show will before will also be able to enjoy it ... [Twilight Zone creator] Rod Serling was a genius. The show may seem campy at times, but all the themes in the episodes are things we can still relate to."

The production, which is free of charge, will run at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in 111 Forum.